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Internationally recognized Bach authority Hans-Joachim Schulze authored a 225-part series on the cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this collection, James A. Brokaw II translates a selection of the essays, illuminating a wide range of biographical and cultural features of Bach’s life and creative milieu. Schulze’s lively and engaging discussions provide a wealth of rewarding insights and perspectives focusing on individual cantatas, their texts, and the questions of chronology and context that attend them.

Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach

A Selective Guide

Hans-Joachim Schulze. Translated by James A. Brokaw II

University of Illinois Press, 2024

The University of Illinois Press has paired the volume with a special web-based companion overseen by the translator and hosted by the Illinois Open Publishing Network. This online resource includes Brokaw’s translations of all 225 of Schulze’s essays alongside digital tools for searching, sorting, and bundling the commentaries according to date of composition, position within the liturgical church year sequence, and librettist.

Perhaps the most important legal treatise ever written in the English language, Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) was the first effort to consolidate English common law into a unified and rational system. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America. This handsomely produced, slipcased four-volume set includes facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition, undistorted by later interpolations.

The Commentaries is divided into four books. The first, introduced by Stanley N. Katz, deals with what Blackstone called "the rights of persons," what a modern lawyer would call constitutional law, the legal structure of government. Book II includes an introduction by A. W. Brian Simpson and describes the law of property. Book III, introduced by John H. Langbein, analyzes civil procedure and remedies. The last book, which is devoted to criminal law and procedure, includes an introduction by Thomas A. Green.

Now regarded as a literary, as well as a legal classic, Blackstone's Commentaries brilliantly laid out the system of English law in the mid-eighteenth century, demonstrating that as a system of justice, it was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Ironically, the work also revealed to the colonists the insufficiencies of the system and became a model for the legal system of the fledgling American nation in 1789. Supplemented with commentary by experts in the field, these classic facsimile volumes belong on every lawyer's bookshelves.

Volume I: Of the Rights of Persons (1765)
Volume II: Of the Rights of Things (1766)
Volume III: Of Private Wrongs (1768)
Volume IV: Of Public Wrongs (1769)

Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

William Blackstone

University of Chicago Press, 2002

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece.

Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.

In his introduction to this first volume, Of the Rights of Persons, Stanley N. Katz presents a brief history of Blackstone's academic and legal career and his purposes in writing the Commentaries. Katz discusses Blackstone's treatment of the structure of the English legal system, his attempts to justify it as the best form of government, and some of the problems he encountered in doing so.

William Blackstone

University of Chicago Press, 1979

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece.

Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.

Introducing this second volume, Of the Rights of Things, A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights—real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts—and the work of his predecessors.

William Blackstone

University of Chicago Press, 1979

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 3

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece.

Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.

Introducing this third volume, Of Private Wrongs, John H. Langbein discusses Blackstone's account of procedure and jurisdiction, jury trial, and equity. He also examines Blackstone's uneasy attitude toward the celebrated legal frictions of English civil procedure.

William Blackstone

University of Chicago Press, 1979

Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece.

Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.

Introducing this fourth and final volume, Of Public Wrongs, Thomas A. Green examines Blackstone's attempt to rationalize the severity of the law with what he saw as the essentially humane inspiration of English law. Green discusses Blackstone's ideas on criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing.

William Blackstone

University of Chicago Press, 1979

Hilary of Poitiers (d. 367), famous for his role in the Trinitarian debates of the fourth century, was a key figure in the emergence of Western, Latin theology and biblical exegesis. His writings reflect his deep engagement with the major Greek thinkers of his time as well as his distinctive approach to the moral and spiritual meaning of Scripture. His extensive treatment of the Psalms, translated here into English for the first time, is the earliest that survives from the Latin West. The work, which Hilary composed between 364 and his death in 367, reflects his mature theology, comprising an Instructio or introduction, as well as commentary on fifty-seven Psalms (1, 2, 9, 13, 14, 51–69, 91, 119 to 150; LXX numbering) and an extended treatise on Psalm 118. While the Commentaries have received relatively little scholarly attention, they reward close reading. They reflect not only Hilary’s own keen interest in the linguistic and theological features of the biblical text, but also his debts to the traditions of interpretation that were circulating among the pro-Nicene thinkers of his time. Close study of this work reveals how Hilary supplemented his own earlier methods of figurative exegesis by engaging Greek sources, especially the thought of Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–c. 255), and by incorporating insights from his developing pro-Nicene theology. Although Hilary attends to the historical meaning of the Psalms, he regularly views Christ as the true author of the prayers. Thus, the Commentaries are closely linked to his Christological and Trinitarian writings, as well as to his theology of kenosis and deification.

Commentaries on the Psalms, Volume

St. Hilary of Poitiers

Catholic University of America Press, 2027

Jerome's Commentary on Galatians is presented here in English translation in its entirety.

Commentary on Galatians

Catholic University of America Press, 2011

Blind since early childhood, the Egyptian theologian and monk Didymus (ca. 313-398) wielded a masterful knowledge of Scripture, philosophy, and previous biblical interpretation, earning the esteem of his contemporaries Athanasius, Antony of Egypt, Jerome, Rufinus, and Palladius, as well as of the historians Socrates and Theodoret in the decades following his death. He was, however, anathematized by the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 553 because of his utilization and defense of the works of Origen, and this condemnation may be responsible for the loss of many of Didymus's writings. Jerome and Palladius mentioned that Didymus had written commentaries on Old Testament books; these commentaries were assumed to be no longer extant until the discovery in 1941 in Tura, Egypt, of papyri containing commentaries on Genesis, Zechariah, Job, Ecclesiastes, and some of the Psalms.

Commentary on Genesis

Catholic University of America Press, 2016

St. Jerome (347-420) has been considered the pre-eminent scriptural commentator among the Latin Church Fathers. His Commentary on Matthew, written in 398 and profoundly influential in the West, appears here for the first time in English translation.

Commentary on Matthew

D.H. St. Hilary of Poiters

Catholic University of America Press, 2012

His Commentary on Matthew, written in 398 and profoundly influential in the West, appears here for the first time in English translation. Jerome covers the entire text of Matthew's gospel by means of brief explanatory comments that clarify the text literally and historically.

Commentary on Matthew

Saint Jerome

Catholic University of America Press, 2008

A disciple of Origen, whose work on Zechariah reached only to chapter five and is no longer extant, Didymus's commentary on this apocalyptic book illustrates the typically allegorical approach to the biblical text that we associate with Alexandria

Commentary on Zechariah

Robert C. Didymus the Blind

Catholic University of America Press, 2006

Striking a balance between the symbolic language of the book and its literal, prophetic fulfillment, Andrew?s interpretation is a remarkably intelligent, spiritual, and thoughtful commentary that encourages the pursuit of virtue and confidence in the love of God for humanity

Commentary on the Apocalypse

Catholic University of America Press, 2012

Commentary on the Apocalypse

John N. Oecumenius

Catholic University of America Press, 2006

Despite its importance and the frequent references made to it by modern scholars, this commentary has never before been translated into English in its entirety. This volume, which includes an extensive introduction, fills this gap, thus providing a needed contribution to medieval scholarship.

Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans

Peter Abelard

Catholic University of America Press, 2011

Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 1-5

Catholic University of America Press, 2001

Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 6-10

Catholic University of America Press, 2002

Commentary on the Gospel According to John, Books 13-32

Catholic University of America Press, 1989

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Books 1-10

Catholic University of America Press, 1989

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapters 6-12

Thomas Aquinas

Catholic University of America Press, 2010

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Chapters 1-5

Thomas Aquinas

Catholic University of America Press, 2010

Commentary on the Gospel of John

Chapters 13-21

Thomas Aquinas

Catholic University of America Press, 2010